Former Grand Theft Auto V boss reveals new open-world game, Everywhere

When you're in the midst of a legal dispute with your old company, a good way to get back at them is to beat them at their own game. Leslie Benzies, the ex-President of Rockstar North, has formed a new studio with locations in Los Angeles and Edinburgh, Scotland and has revealed that they are working on an all-new open-world game called Everywhere. And frankly, it sounds like something the world has never (quite) seen before.

The studio itself, which doesn't have an official name, is primarily composed of ex-Rockstar developers including Colin Entwistle and Matthew Smith, all with extensive experience in making open-world games. Benzies himself has worked on Grand Theft Auto's 3, 4, 5, Online, and Red Dead Redemption, and Everywhere represents the next step in a culmination of lessons learned from every game to this point. Everywhere's premise is simple; players can go anywhere and do anything.

That's quite a broad premise, and the game's website doesn't offer much in the way of specifics either. It describes Everywhere as "A video game that simulates and fuses the real world with the virtual. Live your own stories as you live in ours."

Benzies himself told VentureBeat:

"Everywhere has a lot of traditional game mechanics but we’re going for something more that draws inspiration from, well, everywhere.

Players are getting smarter and require more from their games, and we want players to have the real freedom to live in our worlds in the ways they want to."

Everywhere is almost sounding like a simulation game where story and action aren't the focus of the experience, but will still be present in some form or another. Everywhere will use Amazon Lumberyard as its engine and looks to "create a platform where players can be entertained, and also entertain others while blurring the lines between reality, and a simulated world."

Source: [VentureBeat via Gamespot]